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US troops arrest 128 suspects in Iraq
Australian Broadcasting Company ^
| January 04 2004
| AFP
Posted on 01/03/2004 2:47:53 PM PST by knighthawk
The US military has arrested 128 suspects and seized large quantities of arms and explosives during 24 hours of raids across western Iraq, it has announced.
The suspects were netted in operations on Friday local time by three divisions across the vast Anbar province, which stretches from near Baghdad to the borders with Syria and Jordan, a statement issued by US Central Command said.
The 82nd Airborne Division conducted 151 patrols and carried out searches in the area, arresting 78 suspects and preventing 105 people from entering illegally through the Syrian frontier, it said.
In searches by paratroopers in the towns of Mahmudiyah, Iskandriyah and the insurgency-hit Fallujah, 45 people were arrested, including 12 "targeted individuals", it said.
US soldiers also recovered a large haul of weapons, including 23 kilograms of TNT explosives, 41 rocket-propelled grenade rounds, machine guns and bomb-making equipment.
Insurgents shot down a US helicopter in Fallujah on Friday local time, killing one soldier and injuring another.
The aircraft had been providing support to raids in the area on merchants' premises.
In the city of Ramadi, 100 kilometres west of Baghdad, troops also captured five suspects and recovered small arms and communication equipment.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cache; captured; enemy; iraq
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:48:26 PM PST
by
knighthawk
(Live today, there is no time to lose, because when tomorrow comes it's all just yesterday's blues)
To: knighthawk
Our soldiers are the BEST! Godspeed.
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:49:34 PM PST
by
Peach
(The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:50:57 PM PST
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To: knighthawk
US troops been cleanin' Allah's closet.
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:52:02 PM PST
by
BOBTHENAILER
(One by one, in groups or whole armies.....we don't care how we getcha, but we will)
To: BOBTHENAILER
LOL!!!
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:52:43 PM PST
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: knighthawk
Gee I wonder who could be giving up the intelligence and rolling over on his buddies"? :-)
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:53:09 PM PST
by
SAMWolf
("Bother," said Pooh, and called in an air strike.)
To: knighthawk
"This is a conflict without battlefields or beachheads, a conflict with opponents
who believe they are invisible. Yet, they are mistaken. They will be exposed,
and they will discover what others in the past have learned: Those who make
war against the United States have chosen their own destruction."
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:54:39 PM PST
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
And they are all still alive?
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posted on
01/03/2004 3:03:20 PM PST
by
jocko12
To: knighthawk
and preventing 105 people from entering illegally through the Syrian frontierIf they were returning refugees, they'd have used the regular border crossing,
Good job 82nd, you magnificent bastards!
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posted on
01/03/2004 3:06:18 PM PST
by
woofer
To: All
btt
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posted on
01/03/2004 3:10:34 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: Sacajaweau
BTTT for our Defenders of Freedom!
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